Cash-mat



E. SEARS.

(No Model.)

GAS-H MAT.

No. 894,083. Patented Dec. 4, 1888.

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EDWIN SEARS, OF BROOKLYN, NEW YORK.

CAS H- MAT.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 394,083, dated December 4, 1888. Application filed September 29, 1886. Serial No. 214,904. (No model.)

and Fig. 2 illustrates a central Transverse sec- 3 tion of the same.

I aim by my invention to produce a mat adapted to be placed upon a counter or secured in front of a cashiers window to facilitate the ready exchange of money, and to so construct said mat as that money placed thereon will not slip off, and wherein the smallest coin, oldest note, or thinnest; piece of paper or card maybe readily and expediently removed therefrom.

To that. end I employ a body, A, formed in any desired shape, of flexible materialsuch as rubber or its equivalent-and east integral therewith, or otherwise form upon the face of tions. the said projections being preferably arranged said body A, flexible pin-like projections a,

at slight intervals over the entire upper surface of said body. The outer row of flexible projections u, I usually make somewhat stouter than the others. By thus making the outer series of pins stouter they will protect the inner slender pins from being struck by hard objects moved along a counter, and these stouter pins also impart strength to the mat at its edge.

It will be noticed that in the present in.-

I am aware that a cash-mat has been formed of earthenware or sheet metal, with its surface wafflec, or formed with corrugations or pyramidal projections; also, that a mat for a pitcher has been formed with recesses or be readily grasped, as they must be first moved to bring their edges over a depression before they can be inclined and grasped, for the reason that the projections are rigid; and even if such projections were of flexible material they would be practically rigid so far as my purposes are concerned. The same is true in regard to the flexible pitcheranat, as the walls of the recesses are all connected and would 1 not bend to the finger-pressure, as my flexible stance the pins are arranged in concentric j circular series, so that coins maybe supported edgewise between the pins for use in making change, and. the outer stout pins serve to support coinssuch as silver dollars-which are too large to be supported edgewise between the inner slender pins.

In the operation of the mat the pins, coming in contact with the fingers, yield, admitting Of a grip, top and bottom, of the coin, bill, or card placed thereon, as the said bill or coin rests upon the surface, being too light to produce a depression of the pins.

pins do. No matter what size of coin is placed upon my mat, the pins will bend upon the finger being pressed on the coin, and no sliding of the coins to particular places is required, and then any-sized coins may be supported edgewise, as before stated, which would be absolutely impossible with the prior construc- Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. A cash-mat provided on its upper surface with flexible'c'oiii-supporting pins adapted to bend, substantially set forth.

A cash-mat formed of flexible material, having intgTzlfi'exible coin-supporting pins, substantially as set forth.

3. A casl1-Inatp,rovided with concentric circular serie s b'f fiexible pins adapted to support coins either fiat or edgewise, substantially as set forth.

4:. A easl t provided with inner slender flexible *p'ii 1nd aii outer row of stouter flexible pins for protecting the inner pins and supporting large coins edgewise, substantially as set forth.

EDVIN SEARS.

*itnesses:

ADOLPH H. GETTING, EGBERT S. MOTT. 

